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...Mark Zuckerberg likes Nike, while Jeff Bezos prefers Converse. “These aren’t exactly trendy guys,” says Oliver Hooson, a 32-year-old photographer in London....
...The Black Monks band will perform at this space in October....
...Every time we tried to visit, a lurking monk shunted us away, always with the words, “No no no, è in restauro” (“It’s under restoration”)....
...Ideally, I would spend a few weeks there, exploring the upper region with just a donkey and a sherpa, walking around the ancient villages and meeting the monks....
...of sea-bream carpaccio with rosemary oil and orange zest; pan-fried veal kidneys and artichokes; tagliatelle with ragù Bolognese; calamaretti with courgettes and bottarga; and a side of minerally green monk...
...They played excerpts in the opening bash, mixed in with snippets of Dolphy and Monk....
...Van, a Stanford University graduate, has raised a total of $12m from investors including Google’s AI-focused fund Gradient Ventures, the 500 Startups fund and Singapore-based Monk’s Hill Ventures....
...“We play Thelonious Monk, so often for the people who end up coming it is our responsibility and delight to introduce, sometimes for the first time, songs that they might be hearing for a lifetime and open...
...In modern China some Buddhists monks are paying slightly more attention to temporal matters, such as the initial public offerings of holy mountains....
...(FT) #MeToo in the monastery The Venerable Xuecheng, arguably one of the most important monks in China, has led a Buddhist revival in the country....
...LinkedIn’s chief executive, Jeff Weiner (another meditation enthusiast), believes in “compassionate management” and likes to hire accordingly....
...“There’s something really terrifying about watching Jeff Sessions quote the Bible while he performs apartheid-like acts . . ....
...while the meat of the performance presented new compositions with working titles — “a blues, sort of” opened, there was “a waltz, sort of”, and the second number was a rhythmic figure worked out by drummer Jeff...
...He may bristle at the comparison but I am talking to the Jeff Bezos of China....
...Their bravura duet took in jazz-doctored bolero, pulled-apart valse-musette and a fast-paced abstraction that firmed thrillingly into Thelonious Monk’s “I Mean You”....
...He has swapped works with others represented by his gallery (Lisson) including Jonathan Monk and Cory Arcangel. Such trades are an important part of art history....
...“A lot of useless knowledge might just clutter your mind and make you unhappy,” mused the monk....
...He talks about “the form of life melting away”, about monks who go into morgues to meditate amid the dead. He is smiling. “Well, here’s what happens to us, and what else is there?”...
...I was reminded of it by the recent coverage of Jeff Bezos’s acquisition of The Washington Post. Mr Bezos is a fine example of what Mr Doerr means by missionary....
...Virginia Woolf’s Garden: The Story of the Garden at Monk’s House, by Caroline Zoob and Caroline Arber, Jacqui Small, RRP£30/$50 Although not a great gardener, Woolf loved her garden at Monk’s House in Sussex...
...There have been presidents and playwrights; tycoons and tennis players; royalty and rogues; monks and a convicted murderer (Norman Parker)....
...For western nations and Japan, eager to prioritise democratic reforms and the improvement of human rights and living standards, cozying up to a government that shot and tortured monks in the 2007 saffron...
...This Cranach shares less with the earnest naturalism of his contemporaries Dürer and Holbein than with the manipulative glamour of John Currin or Jeff Koons....
...The rhythm team of Jeff Williams and Michael Janisch on drums and bass was key to the success....
...There was an angular homage to Thelonius Monk – “Sphere”, written by Revis – and an encore that recast Monk’s “Rhythm-a-ning” to sound unlike anything Monk would play....
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